{"id":2510163,"date":"2025-11-13T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/espns-pat-mcafee-goes-off-on-leftists-mad-about-his-veterans-day-interview-with-trump-you-hate-the-troops\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T11:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T16:25:10","slug":"espns-pat-mcafee-goes-off-on-leftists-mad-about-his-veterans-day-interview-with-trump-you-hate-the-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/espns-pat-mcafee-goes-off-on-leftists-mad-about-his-veterans-day-interview-with-trump-you-hate-the-troops\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN&#8217;s Pat McAfee Goes Off on Leftists Mad About His Veterans Day Interview with Trump: &#8216;You Hate the Troops&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fespns-pat-mcafee-goes-off-on-leftists-mad-about-his-veterans-day-interview-with-trump-you-hate-the-troops%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2510163&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>ESPN host Pat McAfee featured former President Donald Trump as a guest on his Veterans Day episode of &#8220;The Pat McAfee Show,&#8221; sparking controversy among some viewers. The interview, conducted via phone from Parris Island, South Carolina, covered topics such as the importance of Veterans Day, golf, sports, and the government shutdown. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pat-mcafee-calls-espn-executive-a-rat-and-accuses-him-of-trying-to-sabotage-his-show\/\" title=\"Pat ... accuses ... executive of being a rat and attempting to sabotage his show\">mcafee defended<\/a> his decision to include Trump, stating that as commander-in-chief and leader of the military, trump deserved a place on the Veterans Day spotlight.McAfee also criticized those who opposed the interview, suggesting their opposition equated to hatred toward the troops. This event highlights a shift in cultural attitudes, with Trump now receiving more open support in media outlets like ESPN-contrasting sharply with the widespread rejection he faced during his presidency.Previously, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >public figures<\/a> and media personalities often avoided engaging with Trump, sometimes denouncing him outright, but his supporters have since grown more vocal and unapologetic.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>ESPN host Pat McAfee had President Donald Trump make a guest appearance for his Veterans Day episode of &ldquo;The Pat McAfee Show,&rdquo; an act that unsurprisingly did not go over well with some of his viewers.<\/p>\n<p>McAfee conducted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aGlRrDiOmzk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an interview<\/a> with Trump via phone from Parris Island, South Carolina Tuesday, where the two spoke about the meaning of the day for Trump as well as topics like golf, sports generally, and the government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>The following day, McAfee addressed those who took issue with the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In my eyes, he&rsquo;s the leader of the military, and we were celebrating the hell out of Veterans Day,&rdquo; McAfee said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If you&rsquo;re against what happened yesterday, I&rsquo;d like to say you hate the troops,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p>  <script> console.log(\"A\/B Test Video Player\"); \/\/ Helper function to set a cookie function setVideoCookie(name, value, days) {     var expires=\"\";     if (days) {         var date=new Date();         date.setTime(date.getTime() + (days*24*60*60*1000)); 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    stnPlayer(); } <\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And you should go ahead and swallow that and you can take that to where you want to go,&rdquo; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sky-news-australia-denounces-bidens-hypocrisy-as-dangerous-to-western-world\/\" title=\"Sky News Australia denounces Biden\u2019s hypocrisy as dangerous to western world\">host continued<\/a>. &ldquo;Any president, willing to come on our Veterans Day celebration spotlight show &mdash; commander-in-chief, head of military &mdash; we would be very open to it&hellip; future presidents, you will always be welcome.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Pat McAfee fires back at liberals upset that he had President Trump on his Veterans Day show on ESPN at Parris Island &#128293;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In my eyes, he&rsquo;s the leader of the military, and we were celebrating the hell out of Veterans Day&hellip; So if you&rsquo;re against what happened yesterday, I would&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kXPHx5Svj6\">pic.twitter.com\/kXPHx5Svj6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jon Root (@JonnyRoot_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonnyRoot_\/status\/1988692780475117579?\">November 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s another reminder how much culture has shifted in Trump&rsquo;s favor that McAfee conducted an interview with him and then was unapologetic about it to the naysayers.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous public figures would avoid giving the impression that they would even give Trump the time of day during his first term.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being head of the executive branch, for media personalities like McAfee, he was treated like a pariah at best.<\/p>\n<p>Invocations of Trump from 2016-2020 could also involve moral posturing for said personalities to prove they were &ldquo;one of the good ones.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In October 2016, rapper Eminem released the track &ldquo;Campaign Speech,&rdquo; 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Trump was branded a &ldquo;so-called president&rdquo; in 2017 after the events that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, when violence erupted between crowds of demonstrators.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, there is no shortage of Trump hatred now, but his supporters are louder than before.<\/p>\n<p>They are firing back without fear of repercussions.<\/p>\n<p>Public support for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-joy-reid-compare-trump-surviving-a-shooting-to-biden-surviving-covid-in-a-wild-segment\/\" title=\"Watch Joy Reid compare ... surviving a shooting to Biden surviving COVID in a wild segment\">president &#038;mdash<\/a>; oddly &mdash; may have landed one without a job or fleeing the leftist Twitter mob during his first term.<\/p>\n<p>The atmosphere now is markedly different &mdash; so different that Trump is rightly welcome on ESPN.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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